88 TAKEDA—JAPANESE PRIMULAS. 
base, so that it appears as if the leaf is peltate. The plant does 
not exceed 15 cm. even in the fruiting stage, and is usually 
much smaller. Young leaves are always densely clad with long, 
soft hairs. Inflorescence is composed of a few large showy 
flowers of deep rose colour with yellow eye. 
This species grows on mountains of Central Japan. It has 
been introduced into English gardens only in recent years. 
P. MODESTA, Bisset et Moore. Plate XVIII. 
. modesta, Bisset et Moore (ampl.), a. genuina, Takeda. 
Syn. :-— 
P. modesta, Bisset et Moore, in Journ. Bot., xvi (1878), p. 134. 
P. farinosa, subsp. modesta, Pax, in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv 
(1905), p. 85. 
P. farinosa, var. luteo-farinosa, forma japonica, Fr. et Sav., 
Enum. Pl. Japon., ii, p. 429. 
P. farinosa, var. armena, lusus japonica, Makino, in Toky6 
Bot. Mag., xi (1897), pp. I10, 111; (1902), p. 143. 
P. Matsumurae, Petitm., in Bull. Herb. Boiss., vii (1907), p. 528 
(fide spec. origin.). 
Several names have been attached to this plant by different 
botanists, most of whom regard this species as a variety of P. 
farinosa, probably on account of the mealy nature of the leaf, etc. 
Our species differs, however, from the true P. farinosa, firstly, in 
the very slightly gibbose calyx, secondly, in the less saccate bracts, 
and thirdly, in sulphurous but not silvery farina. The flower 
is of rose, or (very seldom) white colour with yellow eye, and has 
peculiar scent. 
The plant is found on mountains of various parts of Japan, 
extending from Yezo (Island of Rishiri) as far south as Shikoku 
(Mt. Ishidzuchi). 
P. modesta, Bisset et Moore, 8. Faurieae (Franch.), Takeda. 
ate XIX. 
'd 
Syn. :— 
P. Faurieae, Franch., in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, y Se. 
(1886), p. 146.; Pax, in Engler’s Bot. Jahrb., x (1888), p. 211; 
td. in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv (1905), p. II. 
P. farinosa, var. Fauricae, Miyabe, in Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. 
Hist. (1890), p. 249; Makino, in Tékyé Bot. Mag. (1897), pp. 
100, III ; (1902), p. 143. 
Professor Miyabe has already pointed out! that this plant 
does belong to Pax’s sect. Farinosae, despite which Pax in his 
latest work still places this plant in sect. Macrocarpae. This 
variety differs from the typical form of P. modesta merely in 
* Miyabe, in Mem. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist. iv, no. 7 (1890), p- 250. 
